Southern Europe has experienced increasingly frequent and severe droughts in recent decades, yet long‐term station‐based assessments remain limited for Greece. Here, we develop a station‐based, multi‐timescale drought climatology for Greece (1960–2022) using daily precipitation and temperature observations from 67 homogenized Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS) stations. Drought conditions are quantified with the S...

This study introduces a Hidden Markov quantile model with trend dynamics. This methodology allows one to focus on regime switches observed not only on the median but also on some other upper and lower time‐trend extremes observed in air temperature data. In practice, we propose some semi‐parametric quantile trend models with hidden states which can be modelled using the Asymmetric Laplace distribution. Our estimation is based...

The study of hot extremes has traditionally been grounded in the analysis of maximum air temperature, often overlooking the effect of minimum air temperature but also the combined effect of daytime and nighttime thermal conditions (compound hot extremes). The present study examines climatic indices related to nighttime conditions like tropical nights (TRN), compound hot extreme days (CHD) but also three types of heat waves (HW...

The Mediterranean region is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change including Heatwave Events (HEs). Greece in particular, has experienced the effects of such events across various sectors, including public health, the environment, energy, and the socio‐economic domain. This study presents a climatology of HE over Greece from 1960 to 2022 utilising data from 67 weather stations operated by the Hellenic National Mete...

In this paper, we describe and analyze two datasets entitled “Homogenised monthly and daily temperature and precipitation time series in China during 1960–2021” and “Homogenised monthly and daily temperature and precipitation time series in Greece during 1960–2010”. These datasets provide the homogenised monthly and daily mean (TG), minimum (TN), and maximum (TX) temperature and precipitation (RR) records since 1960 at 366 sta...

This study investigates the variability and trends of the mean annual and seasonal surface air temperature in southern Greece, namely in Crete and in the islands of the southern Aegean Sea. The climatic data used are the mean monthly homogenized air temperature values of seven meteorological stations of the Hellenic Meteorological Service, for the period 1960–2004. A Bayesian trend analysis is performed by fitting alternative...